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CHETWYND, WALTER, 1ST VISCOUNT CHETWYND (I), eldest son of John Chetwynd MP, Ingestre, Staffs., and Lucy, dau. of Thomas Roane, Tolhurst Farm, Merstham, Surrey; bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 3 Jun 1678 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1693; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 May 1696; of Ingestre, Staffs.; MP Stafford 26 Dec 1702-10, 24 Jan 1712-22, 4 Feb 1725-34; Master of the Buckhounds to Prince George of Denmark and Queen Anne 13 Jun 1709 - Jun 1711; Ranger of St. James’s Park and Keeper of the Mall 1714-27; created Viscount Chetwynd (I) 29 Jun 1717; High Steward of Stafford, 1717; Thomas Newton (qv) relates a curious story of Chetwynd’s “alarming illness”, which was cured by his drinking some small beer after some 750 guineas had been wasted in medical advice (Bishop Newton’s Works, 1787, i, 33); m. 27 May 1703 Hon. Mary Berkeley, Maid of Honour to Queen Anne, eldest dau. of John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge; d. 21 Feb 1735/6. [presumably Paymaster of Pensions 18 Mar 1718 – May 1731 ?]
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.